Re: coexist multiple versions of automake

[Ben Pfaff <blp at cs dot stanford dot edu>]

Paul Lew <paullew@cisco.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
> 
>     Ben> You may want to have a look at my packaging of Autoconf 2.13
>     Ben> and Autoconf 2.52 for Debian, which includes an heuristic
>     Ben> that automatically picks the right version of Autoconf to run
>     Ben> in most cases.
> 
> Thanks for the tip, but we are using Solaris.  Do Debian package
> support multiple platform?

The wrapper script is written in Perl.  There's no reason you
have to use the package itself; you could extract the script and
use it by itself along with Autoconf 2.13 and 2.52 installs, if
it turned out to be useful for your purpose.